Original scientific paper
Korčula Love Kisses: Baroque in the Love Poetry of Petar Kanavelić
Saša Potočnjak
; Filozofski fakultet Sveučilišta u Rijeci, Rijeka , Hrvatska
Abstract
Poetic opus of Petar Kanavelić, a Korĉula poet, who in many respects was associated with the city of Dubrovnik, includes about 80 lyric and lyricepic poems. Taking into consideration its motifs and themes it can be divided into four lyric types: love, humorous-satirical, religious-reflexive and occasional-laudatory poetry. This paper describes the poetic qualities of love and love-humorous lyrical types and subtypes. So the love lyric types and subtypes are dominated by traditional motif-thematic elements typical of Dubrovnik love poetry in the early modern period. The poems are mostly shaped by means of artificial stylistic methods, and the lyrical topic is built around the figure instead of around the theme. The poems are often formed as a series of rhetorical figures which is formally resolved in the point. The
analysis of Kanavelić’s love poetry shows his skill in the sharp style (stile acuto).
Keywords
stile acuto; concetto; baroque poetry; baroque description; baroque Petrarchism
Hrčak ID:
259678
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Publication date:
22.11.2015.
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